Xenapp 6.5 out

This is pretty old news by now, but some of the features are over here:

– improvements to HDX: this means more types of flash content can be rendered locally, and hopefully cache a bit better. Of course you still need to be running a Windows based client to make use of these optimisations. Terminals, such as the Wyse S10 do not make use of it due to the limited client.

– Multi-stream ICA: this is a big one. ICA can now be split out into 4 distinct streams

Very High

High

Medium

Low

Audio

ThinWire/DX Command Remoting

MediaStream (Windows Media and Flash)

Printing

Seamless

USB Redirection

COM Port Mapping

MSFT TS Licensing

Clipboard

LPT Port Mapping

SmartCard Redirection

Client Drive Mapping

Legacy OEM Virtual Channels

Control Virtual Channel

End User Experience Monitoring

This means if you didn’t have a Citrix Branch repeater you didn’t have many (if any) options for splitting up the various channels within an ICA stream for QoS.

So if I ran QoS on my network links, i could only push ICA up the priority list, but then it would effect ALL ICA channels, including printing.

Now, admins can split it out and put printing where it belongs, looowww down the list.